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YOUNG JACK TARS DROWNED.
ROWINC BOAT CUT IN TWO.
TTnttkp Press Association. (Received 11 a.m.) London, August 30
Twenty lads of the training ship Cornwall were out rowing at Purfleet when a squall drove a tug upon the rowing boat, which cut it in halves, sinking immediately. An officer and sixteen lads were drowned. The current was too strong for the most powerful swimmer.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 4
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64YOUNG JACK TARS DROWNED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 4
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